Island

Rating:
Summary: Hall's Best
Review: I have read all of Russ Hall's books. They are all very good; this one is the best of the bunch. Hall mixes mystery, suspense, intrigue, and a minor revolution in the Bahamas with full characterizations and a true novelist's treatment of important existential themes. What is a good person? When does might make right? When is turning the other cheek merely cowardice? What is love and why do we even bother? All important questions. . . . Hall does not preach them. He weaves them into a thrilling narrative and character development. And the book has a truly wonderful character in it, a fellow named Rolf. Rolf is every bit the 20th/21st century Shakespearean Falstaff. A character of immense joy and mischief.

Rating:
Summary: Vacation Goes from Bad to Worse
Review: Rolf alone is character enough to merit reading this book. He's the Falstaff and potentially dangerous comic relief to a narrator who's as overwhelmed as we would be by the situations these people face when a paradise grows teeth and turns ugly. Read this book, and get your friends copies too!

Rating:
Summary: Vacation Goes from Bad to Worse
Review: This is Hall's best effort yet. The reader is swept into the tropical Bahamian world and a memorable, although eclectic, collection of characters. The action quickens as the trio set out for a day of fishing, wind up battling the elements and bad luck, only to return to the island where things have taken an unexpected turn...and not for the better. Hall writes with the authority of one who knows the Bahamian locale first hand, and has experienced many of the hardships his charactures endure. Great read.

Rating:
Summary: A Tropical Treasure
Review: This is Hall's best effort yet. The reader is swept into the tropical Bahamian world and a memorable, although eclectic, collection of characters. The action quickens as the trio set out for a day of fishing, wind up battling the elements and bad luck, only to return to the island where things have taken an unexpected turn...and not for the better. Hall writes with the authority of one who knows the Bahamian locale first hand, and has experienced many of the hardships his charactures endure. Great read.